ipl-logo

Summary Of The Disciplined Mind By Lewis-Clark

1027 Words5 Pages

Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC) takes great pride in the future teachers that the education programs creates from the students. The teacher education program offered at LCSC is designed to “prepare competent, caring teachers who have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to be effective in helping all students” (“Lewis-Clark,” 2017). During their time at this college, students take a variety of courses that will help prepare them to teach in a classroom and educate future generations as well as connect with students, parents, and the other staff at the school. The college’s overall aim is “to prepare caring professionals who teach for understanding in communities of learning” (“Lewis-Clark,” 2017). Psychologist Howard Gardner explains …show more content…

Gardner (1999) further goes on to state that "good" schools encourage "the cultivation and elaboration of multiple intelligences" (pg 91). The schools also need to be willing to change in aspects such as the overall vision, requirements, and the understanding of subjects. However, he does leave certain aspects of schooling open to preference according to what would work best for individuals, the community, and the culture. Gardner outlines what needs to be done in order to have prepared, caring professionals and communities of learning to achieve teaching for …show more content…

Gardner (1999) outlines four approaches to understanding that can be used in a classroom: “learning from suggestive institutions” (pg 126), “direct confrontations of erroneous conceptions” (pg 127), “a framework that facilitates understanding” (pg 128), and “multiple entry points to understanding” (pg 133). Teaching from suggestive institutions is to contextualize education, or to teach the class in a certain setting to better communicate the teachings of that class. Different classes will have different classes; for example, a cooking class should be taught in a kitchen while a science class should be taught outside or in a lab. Direct confrontations of erroneous conceptions refers to the idea of correcting a student when they believe in something that is wrong. However, a teacher or parent wouldn’t correct the student by just telling them the correct answer, they should make the child discover the correct idea through experiments. Having a framework that facilitates understanding allows students to be “exposed from the start to examples of understanding, and should be given ample opportunities to practice and perform their own understandings” (Gardner, 1999, pg

Show More
Related
734 Words | 3 Pages

“Teaching science is effective when students existing ideas, values and beliefs, which they bring to a lesson, are elicited, addressed and linked to their classroom experiences at the beginning of a teaching programme” (Hipkins et al 2002). It is clear that students do not arrive in class as ‘empty vessels’, and Hipkins et al argue that meaningful learning and understanding occur as a conscious process whereby new knowledge is linked to an existing foundation. If the foundation is incorrect or confused, then true understanding cannot occur; at best facts or figures are memorised in order to pass tests without any assimilation of these facts into the learners existing understanding of the subject matter. Furthermore, children with misconceptions can convince others in a group to take their perspective (Snyder and Sullivan, 1995), rendering co-operative learning a destructive rather than constructive method of teaching.

Read More
1659 Words | 7 Pages

Not many have influenced and impacted the profession of education as largely as Dr. Richard DuFour. DuFour’s dedication and passion for teachers, students, and education as a whole will go unmatched for decades to come, and will never be forgotten. Richard DuFour has brought attention to educational professional learning communities, teacher collaboration, and educational research, all focusing on the main goal of student achievement and learning. Throughout his life and career, Dr. DuFour lead with passion, purpose, and strong leadership that held an impact on everyone in with which he came in contact.

Read More
741 Words | 3 Pages

I also expects that learning will enable me step outside taken-for granted assumptions and narrow framings and to re-form issues in fresh and productive ways. I believe that there is a significant difference between the concepts taught in schools and those happening in the society because society or community is very vibrant and hence students should always be ready to face new challenges (Maria Montessori

Read More
611 Words | 3 Pages

It spoke volumes to me when I read how despite being a veteran teacher, “she [still] wasn’t always sure how to arrange time to work with small groups of students with particular needs”, or that “she often wasn’t certain how to express abstract ideas so that [...] concrete thinkers could confidently approach them” (Tomlinson, 2003, pg. 8). As a college student who is close to being in the field, I often have worries that I won’t be good enough or that I won’t be able to manage all the demands that a teacher has

Read More
472 Words | 2 Pages

The program’s goal is to provide teachers that improve the academic performance of students in high-need schools. Maddy has begun the four-year journey that will lead her to her Masters in Secondary Education focusing on Urban students. “In the morning, I teach in an urban Dallas, Texas school” she explains the rigorous clinical training model “and in the afternoon, I concentrate on my

Read More
653 Words | 3 Pages

The role of an educator is not only to teach the many children that come through our classrooms, it is essential to form relationships with students that makes them feel like they matter and that goes above and beyond a teacher's job. It is essential for children to feel valuable, appreciated and motivated in the early stages of their education, the reason why I am pursuing a Masters of Arts in Teaching for an Elementary level academic setting. Receiving a Bachelor’s of Arts in Education Sciences at the University of California Irvine and the leadership roles I have undertaken in my employment has prepared me to begin and undertake a Masters of Arts in Teaching

Read More
1430 Words | 6 Pages

1. Which actions by the teacher seemed to support student engagement and understanding? During the explain portion of the 5E lesson, Dr. Bradbury supported student engagement and understanding by asking higher level thinking questions; evidence for this can be seen in sections .35-1:15 min and 9:19-11:26 min of the video. The questions Dr. Bradbury asked provided an opportunity for rich in-depth conversations by student to discuss the idea of heat transfer.

Read More
580 Words | 3 Pages

Stephen George Chapter 2 Journal One major point that is brought up near the end of Chapter 1 and the beginning of Chapter 2 is the importance of the teacher’s own beliefs. In other words, theory is just as important as practice. No matter what subject is being taught to the students, the instructor’s beliefs have a largely underrated effect on their students’ success. In fact, the authors of this textbook state that “teachers act on their beliefs about what good teachers do and those beliefs are probably the most important factor in determining the success or failure of a new approach to teaching” (62). The teacher I primarily worked with last year organized his students into six different groups based on their standardized math test scores.

Read More
578 Words | 3 Pages

The teaching profession, while often undervalued, plays a critical role in the development of upcoming generations. Children from five years old to their upper teens spend upwards of 7 hours a day for over half the calendar year in a school system with only their teachers as a primary guiding force outside of their homes. Teachers not only cultivate minds in educating their subjects, but they also help to mold their students’ lives by leading by example and showing how to properly interact in everyday life. The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards were enacted to ensure that incoming teachers possess the knowledge and skills required to provide quality instruction to their students. Teachers must be aware

Read More
958 Words | 4 Pages

There are a vast amount of things that can be taught through this principle that are often overlooked and unappreciated. The idea of

Read More
661 Words | 3 Pages

A teacher is more than an educated presenter of information, and more than the sum of the information and abilities he or she possesses. It has often been said that a leader knows, goes, and shows the way, which can also be said of a good teacher, who is by any definition a leader (Maxwell, 2010, p. 34). Mrs. Kalleward is a teacher who had such an impact on me, and in many ways she began to shape my career as an educator by teaching me how to be an effective and productive teacher in many areas. I am certain that I am one of many students who share this opinion of her, and that is why I am recognizing her today. Teachers who care enough about their students to form bonds with them have more far-reaching effects than simply imparting

Read More
611 Words | 3 Pages

Students are able to take what they learned in previous school years and build a greater understanding for future learning. Key concepts are better understood which allows students to have access to concepts and procedures that are more challenging (Conley,

Read More
1280 Words | 6 Pages

The overall goal is for all students to be taken care of while in the classroom and to gain the knowledge that they need in order to be successful in life. My goal is to become a teacher and I will continue to work for the goal that my ancestors created many years ago. Every student deserves to be able to walk out of the classroom having learned how to become a responsible citizen that can change the world. In early Arkansas education, teachers taught in small one-room schoolhouses, instructed many age groups of kids, worked in unideal conditions, and taught all of the basics in the “Three R’s”. All of these challenges were to make sure that their students had an education.

Read More
225 Words | 1 Pages

Differentiated instruction has been formed on the basis of Howard Gardner’s theory which stated that students learn through diverse intelligences. Gardner (1983) first identified the following intelligences in his book Frames of Mind: logical/mathematical, verbal/linguistic, musical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, existential, interpersonal, and intrapersonal and later added the naturalist intelligence (Morgan, 2014). No single type of intelligence is viewed as being superior to the others. In Table 4.1 (Akbari & Hosseini, 2008), the characteristics of the mentioned intelligences have been illustrated:

Read More
1193 Words | 5 Pages

On Thursday, September 14th, my fellow classmates and I had the privilege to interview and speak with a new teacher in the education field; Ian Cole. During the interview, Mr Cole explained to the class how important it is as an educator to make each classroom a comfort zone for all students giving them the equal chance to learn and develop as both an individual and a whole. He spoke about the school in which he teaches and how important it is to love what you do everyday in order to succeed and accelerate. Mr. Cole allowed the class to ask him divergent questions and answered effectively and to his full potential. Allowing a class of educators to speak with someone who recently walked down the road they are currently walking on gives them

Read More

More about Summary Of The Disciplined Mind By Lewis-Clark

Related Topics

Open Document